Loading..

18 December 2015

Facts About Ariana Grande

Ariana Grande, an inspiring, beautiful and extremely talented actress, singer & dancer who has won over 30 awards as of 2015, so check out these top 50 fun facts about Ariana’s life, family & career!

Her full name is Ariana Grande-Butera and was born on 26th June 1993 in Boca Raton, Florida, United States.

She is of Italian descent and is half Sicilian and half Abruzzese.

Ariana’s parents moved from New York to Florida just before she was born.

Her parents chose her name after being inspired by Princess Oriana from Felix the Cat.

Her mother is called Joan Grande-Butera, and has always been a massive influence in Ariana’s career.

Joan owns a company that manufactures communications equipment for the Navy & Marines.

Ariana’s father is called Edward Butera, who was born on 20th September 1958.

Edward is a Graphic Designer and the founder of IBI Designs Inc.

Edward often Tweets about how proud he is of his daughter, his Twitter is @CaptainEddieB.

Ariana’s parents split up when she was 8 or 9.

Ariana has an older half-brother called Frankie who is ten years older than her.

His full name is Frank James Michael Grande Marchione. And he is a musical theatre actor and producer.

In 2014, Ariana’s brother was a contestant on the 16th series of Big Brother.

Ariana has six dogs; these are called Coco, Toulouse, Ophelia, Fawkes, Cinnamon and Sirius Black.

In Early 2015, Ariana adopted her sixth dog Sirius Black, named after the fictional godfather in the Harry Potter series. She called him this because of his dark coat of fur.

Although Ariana’s name was inspired from Felix the Cat, ironically, she’s allergic to cats. She is also allergic to bananas.

Ariana is a vegan, meaning she doesn’t eat or use animal products.

Ariana’s fan base are called Arianators. However on 27th March 2014, Ariana said she wanted her fan base to be called “the loves” rather than Arianators, since then she frequently tweets to her fans calling them ‘my loves’, this didn’t catch on!

In June 2014, it was announced that Ariana’s 90-year-old grandfather beat cancer. Arianators made #WeAreProudOfGrandpaGrande trend on Twitter.

Her grandmother is an believer in naked sleeping!

Ariana has a birthmark on her left shoulder (at the back) and a dimple in her left cheek.

She is 5′ 1″ tall – or 155 cm.

Ariana attended Pine Crest School and North Broward Prepatory School.

Her favourite subject in school was science.

Grande left school to pursue her music career; however she continued to be enrolled so that her tutors could send her materials and help her study.

At age three, Ariana had her first crush, which was Justin Timberlake.

Ariana’s natural hair is brown & curly.

She is a huge fan of the Harry Potter series. – unrelated but there’s a character named Ariana (Ariana Dumbledore) in the books. Her favourite characters in the series are Luna Lovegood & Draco Malfoy.

Ariana enjoys watching the hit TV show Gossip Girl.

At the age of ten, Ariana co-founded the South Florida youth singing group ‘Kids Who Care’, which performed for charitable fund-raising events.